Well, I'm generally pretty happy, anyhow.
But I did find this interesting. Thank you for the info. :-)
Just for the record...one more time...I really wish they made FastStone
for MAC. I could partition or run Windows OS parallel on the iMAC, but
I'd really rather not do that for any reason, and certainly not for
editing, it would not help workflow at all. Best to try and adjust to
something new.
Brian Swale, if you are reading this, you may have missed my original
email to you regarding FastStone and how much I miss it, as there is
nothing just like it for MAC. (I switched from PC to MAC in December). I
was telling you to enjoy FastStone, as I greatly miss this program in my
workflow. Much of the conversation surrounding Sagelight, Lightroom,
Studio, and maybe one or two other editing programs for various editing
needs, began because I sent that email to you about FastStone. It won't
convert your ORF's, but it can do a heck of a whole lot of other things
(as you well know, and as you and I have emailed about on this list
several times over the years), and you are comfortable with it. IMHO,
you should just stick with it, unless you're looking for something to
convert the RAW images or do heavier editing. In other words, ignore the
chaos I introduced into the list. :-)
Sorrrrieee.
Candace
On 1/29/12 8:04 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Thanks. Always good to check the assumptions. Candace should be happy.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 1/29/2012 12:44 AM, Moose wrote:
>> On 1/28/2012 4:45 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>>> ... the main discussion which was that, without an embedded
>>> JPEG to work with, FastStone was ultimately obligated to convert ORFs
>>> along with its attendant performance impact in order to be able to see
>>> anything at all.
>> Except that's not true. You've made a possibly reasonable assumption based
>> on a report from someone else, but not
>> checked it.
>>
>> I just grabbed an .ORF file from the web. It's from an E-620. It has a full
>> size of 4096x3084. Embedded in it are two JPEGs:
>> Preview 1: image/jpeg, 160x120 pixels, 7178 bytes
>> Preview 2: image/jpeg, 3200x2400 pixels, 1115932 bytes
>>
>> Faststone acts with this Raw file just as I described with CR2 files. If FS
>> seems slow opening a folder of ORFs and
>> displaying the thumbnails, it's much the same with CR2s on my machine.
>>
>> The embedded JPEG in this example is rather large. Perhaps that is a factor
>> in speed of extraction and display?
>> Certainly it helps explain why Oly Raw files are so large.
>>
>> I think I may have just had a brainstorm! The thumbnails in CR2 files are
>> also 160x120. I had FS set for 120x90 thumbs.
>> I may have been forcing it to access the larger preview image and generate a
>> thumbnail from it for each file. No wonder
>> it takes a while for a large folder!
>>
>> I just changed my FS settings to 160x120 thumbs. Now, folders of CR2s start
>> showing thumbs immediately and move briskly
>> along, at least with the small preview window closed.
>>
>> Now to go rest and let the neurons recover. :-)
>>
>> Preview Me Moose
>>
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